Released a Validator Scorecard tool that evaluates Solana validator performance.

Generated over $650M in MEV tips paid to validators for bundle inclusion in 2025, representing more than 50% of Solana's total Real Economic Value.

Featured in a podcast episode discussing JitoSOL market share trends and broader Solana DeFi topics.

Three whales or institutions withdrew 1.33 million JTO tokens valued at $521,000 from exchanges over a two-day period ending December 31, 2025.

Minted 316,000 JitoSOL on December 18, 2025

Relocated core Jito Foundation operations back to the United States after operating offshore.

Increased competition in Solana block building space as Harmonic, Bloxroute, and Raiku compete for market share per Breakpoint 25 takeaways.

Jito has a forthcoming upgrade called BAM in development, described as a frontier blockchain technology advancement.

The protocol records $2.38M in real fees and cashflow for the week, ranking 9th among top DeFi protocols measured by this performance metric.

The LST sector on Solana exceeds 55-60M SOL, with jitoSOL ranking as one of the three largest liquid staking protocols alongside dzSOL and bnSOL.

@defiapp hosts a trading leaderboard competition with $2,000 in JTO prizes, with snapshot occurring and top 50 traders entering a raffle.

Jito drops out of the top-20 DeFi protocols by Total Value Locked between December 2024 and December 2025 according to DefiLlama data.

Jito has speaking sessions scheduled at Solana Breakpoint conference in Abu Dhabi on Day 2 (December 12) at 6:10pm.

A lawsuit against Pump.fun extends to include Jito and Solana Labs as additional parties in the legal action.

Jito publishes a comprehensive week-long review document addressing Block Auction Mechanism (BAM) concerns and providing responses to community questions about design trade-offs.

Drift Protocol announces upcoming Jito BAM plugin integration in their v3 upgrade to enforce cancel-before-take mechanics, protect market makers, and enable tighter spreads.

Sanctum flips Jito in Total Value Locked rankings on Solana, taking the #3 position while Jito falls to #4 or lower, with only Jupiter and Kamino maintaining higher TVL.

Jito-Agave runs 60% of the Solana validator network with rewards currently identical to competitor BAM's offering, which operates 103 validators holding 7.6% of mainnet stake.

Nonprofits can now receive Jito tokens as donations through a crypto donation platform for Crypto Giving Tuesday.

Solana Mobile announces Jito co-hosts the Accelerace side event with DoubleZero at Solana Breakpoint conference in Abu Dhabi.

Five governance proposals (JIP 26-30) meet quorum and end voting Nov 29th, extending the DAO's $3m+ buyback program, introducing directed staking functionality, and prioritizing stake toward BAM validators to increase adoption from 6.5% network stake.

The crypto exchange Upbit confirms approximately $36.8M in assets including JTO were transferred to an unknown wallet on Nov 27, 2025, resulting in full suspension of deposits and withdrawals.

A technical bug in the Jito plugin crashes Solana validators when processing bundles of 6 transactions, potentially impacting 20% of validators.

A new NFT governance project called "Jito Cabal" launches with NFTs backed by capital deposited into a vault that earns yield through JitoSOL, with the accumulated yield controlled by NFT holders. Superteam Japan hosts an educational session on Jito BAM scheduled for Nov 27th 09:00 JST.

Cushion (@cushiondottrade) chooses to build with JitoSOL for their platform.

The team warns that attempts to farm a hypothetical second airdrop will result in "reverse airdrop" invoices as penalties. JIP-25 has passed, expanding StakeNet's validator delegation from 200 to 400 validators.

RevTec becomes the first Solana validator to share 100% of block rewards and Jito tips with stakers.

Jito ranks #15 among the top 20 most-used dApps in the Solana dApp Store according to Seeker usage data. The project has open positions and is actively hiring.

Helius expands into MEV stack services including validator, LST, and orderflow operations that overlap with Jito's business areas.

BAM now has 83 validators representing 5.6% of mainnet stake, while 5 governance proposals go to vote next week and the team prepares BAM delegation and directed stake features for launch pending governance approval.

Jito ranks #5 among Solana ecosystem projects by development activity according to Santiment's GitHub-based methodology, with ranking improving since last month.

The DAO has earned 131,611 JitoSOL in cumulative revenue to date, annualized to approximately $15.2m/yr.

SIMD-0186 protocol update schedules for devnet activation at epoch 978, requiring validators to run at least Jito v2.3.0.

BAM reaches over 20 million SOL in stake following its recent launch.

New LP incentive program allocates 10,000 JTO monthly to hyUSD-USDC liquidity providers with additional 5x Hylo XP Boost in collaboration with Hylo.

Jito Labs is hiring for new positions through their official website. (Tweet 1989356011967119842)

BAM launches as a new product, with the team drawing parallels to their November 2022 launch and stating BAM will enable Solana infrastructure capabilities.

The REV scheduler that provided Jito with 85% slot exclusivity is being deprecated by the Firedancer team.

Leadership publicly recognizes failure to communicate progress and vision to community over past 6 months and pledges to be more vocal going forward.

100% of protocol fees are directed towards JTO token buybacks, with repurchases occurring at current market levels.

SIMD-0306 protocol update goes live on Solana mainnet at epoch 878, increasing per account CU limit to 40% of block CU and requiring Jito v3.0.0 or higher for validators.

The 5 JIPs in the current governance batch cover cryptoeconomics, stake pool governance, governance structures, futarchy, and BAM.

Jito DAO enters new governance cycle with 5 major proposals numbered JIP-26 through JIP-30 for discussion and voting.

jitoSOL integrates with Katana for EVM-based yield farming opportunities, providing cross-chain utility for staked SOL.

realStaking staking product with uncapped yield goes live, powered by jito_sol and enabled by KyrosFi.

Onchain financials go live on Binance app, providing financial data visibility to Binance users.

JTO and JitoSOL holders receive 10,000 Fuel Points through new racer.fun partnership for Solana Grand Prix Pit Crew Missions.

Harmonic launches as a competitor on Solana.

SOL Strategies' Solana Mobile Validator goes live running Jito BAM, enabling staking directly from Seeker's Seed Vault Wallet with no fees on staking rewards and ISO 27001 & SOC 2 compliance.

jitoSOL launches on Katana with swap, borrow, lend, and vault features across SushiSwap, Morpho, Turtle, Midas RWA, and Re7 Labs protocols.

a16z crypto completes $50M strategic investment; BAM mainnet reaches over 10M SOL staked and governance proposal JIP-25 passes.

A token unlock of $9.69M worth of JTO tokens is scheduled for next week.

VanEck files Amendment #1 S-1/A with the SEC for a Solana staking ETF that includes JitoSOL staking capabilities.

Chief Legal Officer Rebecca Rettig features in CNBC interview recapping her Washington DC trip for regulatory discussions.

BitGo adds support for JitoSOL, enabling institutions to access liquid staking on Solana through custody or self-custody wallets backed by BitGo's security infrastructure.

SOL ETFs begin trading and Jito-BAM client launches on mainnet.

Jito DAO receives 5 new improvement proposals (JIPs) today.

Hylo crosses $100 million in TVL and ranks as the 8th largest JitoSOL holder through its backing reserve.

Drift validator adopts and runs the BAM client.

Rebecca Rettig appears on CNBC to discuss Washington DC trip for DeFi advocacy efforts.

Bug bounty program for BAM Client goes live on Immunefi with rewards ranging from $1k-$100k across four severity levels, and Certora Inc becomes a security partner for the protocol.

The JitoSOL Blacklist Committee bans 15 validators from receiving stake following a sandwiching report that found 23 validators had over 6% of leader slots containing wide sandwiches.

Jito secures $50 million in funding from a16z.

Cryptoeconomics SubDAO announces 100% of Jito Network revenue funds continuous JTO buybacks, with $2.5 million in buybacks executed since August 2025 and monthly buybacks matching 100% of previous month's revenue going forward.

LP depositors in JitoSOL-ONyc pool receive 5,000 JTO monthly, 1,500 ORCA monthly, and 10x OnRe points boost.

Q3 results show -34% decline, identified as the second-largest negative driver affecting Solana's network GDP of $909 million.

OnRe partnership launches providing institutional-grade yield through ONyc with Orca liquidity integration, where liquidity providers earn rewards in OnRe points, $JTO, and $ORCA tokens.

DAO generates $22 million in annual revenue and Pipe Network deploys LovePIPE via restaking integration.

Jito secures $50M funding round for its Solana LST and MEV operations.

Chief Legal Officer attends Senate Democrat roundtable on Wednesday to discuss crypto market structure legislation alongside CEOs and executives from Coinbase, Chainlink, Galaxy, Kraken, Uniswap, Circle, Ripple, and a16z crypto.

$25 million in token supply unlocks monthly with a $250 million unlock block scheduled for next month.

Token incentive program goes live with 5,000 $JTO monthly rewards for hyUSD-JitoSOL liquidity pool deposits through partnerships with Hylo and Kamino vaults.

DoubleZero partners with Jito to power connectivity between BAM nodes on Solana.

Two key product inflections announced: BAM to reshape SOL block production and improve on-chain trading, and TradFi adoption of JitoSOL via ETFs.

Andreessen Horowitz crypto division ($46B venture capital firm) invests $50 million in Jito by purchasing native $JTO tokens, representing the project's largest single investment to date according to Fortune Magazine.

LovePIPE liquid staking token launches within Jito (Re)staking ecosystem through partnership with Pipe Network, a decentralized CDN on Solana. Users stake PIPE tokens with node operators and earn rewards while maintaining liquidity, expanding Jito's restaking capabilities beyond SOL.

Market share grows to nearly 50% of all SOL staked in Solana's LST market over the past two years.

During the October 10th market crash, JitoSOL held its peg with only 10bps (0.10%) deviation while competing LSTs BNSOL, jupSOL, and INF depegged by 140-300bps (-1.4% to -3.0%). Over 50% of JitoSOL trade volume was routed through incentivized pools during the crash.

Partners with BONK, OVHcloud, and Solana Foundation to co-present charity fashion show event in London next week.

Community subDAOs launch with Jito Expansion Team Europa as the first regional ground team in a series of planned geographic expansion initiatives.

JIP-25 passes to expand JitoSOL validator pool to 400 top-ranked validators from current 210. Protocol holds $2.9B+ TVL with 97.87% network stake weight on validator client.

Kamino integration going live Monday for early access users as second integration. Infrastructure successfully handled recent Solana DeFi stress event, maintaining critical operations for arbitrage, liquidations, and oracles.

Token performance shows 57% decline in 2025, underperforming relative to SOL along with other major Solana ecosystem tokens.

Competitor Sanctum reports their INF token delivered 28% higher returns than JitoSOL over approximately 50 epochs during Q3 2025.

JITOSOL experiences major inflows alongside other leading Solana liquid staking tokens in recent surge.

Partnership with Pipe Network confirmed to build stake delegation program using Jito (Re)staking protocol, with LovePIPE liquid staking token launching October 15th for staked $PIPE.

New perpetual futures trading is now available for JTO with limited-time promotional achievements to incentivize trading activity.

Infrastructure expanded to enable liquid staking for any SPL token on Solana, not just SOL.

JIP-25 governance vote scheduled for October 8, 2025, proposes to expand the validator set and modify stake pool eligibility criteria.

$17.97M worth of JTO tokens will be unlocked in the upcoming week, representing one of the seven largest token unlocks scheduled.

LPs in FLP.1 pool have earned an additional $130,000 in yield from SOL staked as JITOSOL.

The Cryptoeconomics subDAO (CSD) has executed buybacks to optimize token value accrual, as highlighted by Head of Foundation Brian Smith during the tokenholder relations call.

JITOSOL sees significant fund interest from smart money over 30-day period, indicating institutional capital allocation to liquid staking tokens.

Jito Foundation appoints Marc Liew as Head of APAC to expand Asia presence; Liew previously led Web3 Partnerships at Ripple focusing on institutional DeFi, stablecoins, and RWA tokenization.

Listed among Solana's top 5 apps by Total Value Locked alongside major protocols including Jupiter, Kamino, Circle, and Sanctum.

The protocol launched the early mainnet version of BAM (Block Assembly Marketplace).

JIP-24 proposal has passed, resulting in $25M annually flowing directly to token holders. The financial impact details were revealed during the tokenholder relations call.

Large whale activity detected with a $421K buy order executed.

Jito is conducting $JITO token buybacks as part of a broader trend among revenue-generating crypto projects.

The first JTO tokenholder relations call is scheduled for Monday, September 29th at 11am ET.